When asked if there will be more Sherlock, Benedict said: "Yes. Listen I know where this [rumour] came from.

"This came from an arts desk or any kind of news outlet going, 'oh we really need a story', so they sort of shipped out this quote which said that I said, 'this is the last one', which is not what I said.

"I said, 'for the time being'. And you'll see when you watch [the new series], that there's a good reason why I said that.

"We won't be doing one immediately after this one airs. That's all I meant. We never ever say never on that show. We love doing it."